<topic>
	<head>
		<title>TRIM</title>
		<keywords>
			<keyword term="functions, TRIM" />
			<keyword term="string functions, TRIM" />
			<keyword term="TRIM function" />
		</keywords>
		<links>
			<link href="Functions.html">Functions</link>
			<link href="String Functions.html">String Functions</link>
		</links>
	</head>
	<body>
		<summary>
			<p>
				Removes all occurrences of white space characters from the beginning and end of a specified string.
			</p>
		</summary>

		<syntax>
			<code xml:space="preserve">TRIM(text AS string) RETURNS string</code>
		</syntax>

		<parameters>
			<params>
				<param name="text">
					<p>
						A string containing white space characters at the beginning and/or end.
					</p>
				</param>
			</params>
		</parameters>

		<returns>
			<p>
				A string equivalent to <c>text</c> after white space characters are removed from the beginning and end.
			</p>
		</returns>
	</body>
</topic>
